My Best Nest: A Purple Martin Story
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Purple Martin Nestlings
Enemy #1: Starling
Enemy #2: House Sparrow
Martin Hooligans
Feeding time!
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"My Best Nest," the book
A tale of beginnings
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Learn more about Ernest Harold Baynes, who helped create the first bird sanctuary in North America.
Learn more about Father Alzate, one of the first to conduct bird-banding studies of martins.
Learn more about the Purple Martin geolocator project
Learn more about operation migration
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